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Professor Nicolas P. Terry has been invited by the White House to attend the Precision Medicine Initiative Summit on February 25 in Washington, D.C.

The event will bring together leaders from the federal government, private sector, academia, research organizations, and patient advocacy groups to discuss next steps in the president’s Precision Medicine Initiative. President Barack Obama announced the launch of the initiative during his State of the Union address in 2015; an effort to revolutionize the way health is improved and disease is treated. Precision medicine is an innovative approach that takes into account individual differences in genetics, environments and lifestyles and gives medical professionals the resources they need to target the specific treatments of the illnesses patients encounter.

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also is a member of the Health IT Consumer Workgroup. His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, social media and health, big data, and health care fragmentation. He started the podcast, “The Week in Health Law” with Professor Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The podcast is available for download at iTunes, and PodBean, and can be listened to at Stitcher Radio. He is one of the permanent bloggers at HealthLawProf and at Harvard Law School’s Bill of Health.  His recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network, and he can be followed on Twitter @nicolasterry.